Making Drupal Admin Simple - Usability for the backend.

Track: 
Implementation and Config
Experience: 
Intermediate

This session will demonstrate how to:
* organize data (nodes, cck, etc),
* simplify navigation, and
* enhance front-end and back-end theme

to create websites that:
* are easy to administer,
* reduce the need for extensive training and/or documentation, and
* extend the overall lifespan of the website structure.

Included will be:
* The questions one needs to ask when building out data types.
* How to modify front and backend themes to prompt easy editing and administering
* How to use help to actually help users
* How to implement these concepts in Drupal 6 and 7
* What tools you will need along the way.

This session will be geared for the beginner to intermediate level Drupaler. However, in order to gain the full-benefit of the information provided, prior experience with installation, theming and configuration of Drupal as well as the CCK and Views modules is highly recommended.

Intended audience: 

The main audience for this session is the Drupal authenticated user. This session will benefit the casual once-in-a-while editor to the administrator tasked with supporting various roles.

Questions answered by this session
Question 1: 
What can I do to reduce the cost of training and documentation?
Question 2: 
What modules are out there that can help make my site easier to maintain?
Question 3: 
What UI tweaks will have the greatest impact on usability?
Question 4: 
How have things improved with D7?
Question 5: 
How do I add additional help to my website?
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